Re: Setup code crashes my old 486 box

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 11:34:03 EST


Joerg Roedel wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:57:31PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Right in concept, but I dislike the implementation (duplication of the CPU detect code we already have). Could you try this patch and see if it works for you?

Cool, with a small modification to fix a build error with it the
resulting kernel boots my machine. Thanks.
Would be cool to have this patch one merged soon :-)
Attached is your patch with my little build fix. It redefines a values
already defines in cpufeatures.h but I can't include that file in the
boot code so I simply redeclared it. Maybe there is a cleaner solution
for this.


There is... let me cook it up and add Alan's correction.

-hpa
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